Automation Symposium 2015

1. Tomorrow’s Automation, Today
A Symposium on Virtualization For the Process &
Manufacturing Industries

2. Hassan S. Goraya
Project Manager - IX
Oct. 20th, 2015 | 10:30 - 11:00
TECHNOLOGY INSIGHT - VIRTUALIZATION

3. Virtualization
Agenda
Transformational change in IT
Resource sharing
Why Virtualize an automation system?
Benefits of having a virtualized system
Key concepts
Virtual architectures
Main components
VMware -Introduction
VMotion
Dynamic recourse scheduling
High availability
Fault tolerance
Central control room - solution
Virtualization infrastructure physical topology
Rockwell automation and VM ware
Virtualization demo
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4. Introduction to
Virtualization
Transformational Change in IT
Virtualization
Decouples software from
underlying hardware
Encapsulates Operating
Systems and applications into
“Virtual Machines”
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A Virtual Machine

5. VMware vSphere
x86 architecture
Introduction to
Virtualization:
Resource Sharing
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6. Why Virtualize an Automation System?
There is a big room for
Improvement in Standard
Physical Infrastructure !!
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Under Utilization
Expansion Capability
Disaster Recovery
Discontinued Support

7. Benefits of having
a Virtualized
Infrastructure
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Takes care of all the problems in the previous slide
Fault Tolerance
Application Load Balancing
Rapid Disaster Recovery
Snapshots
Reduced physical foot print

8. Technology Overview: Virtualization
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VM: A software instance of the former physical computers which
behaves exactly like a physical computer, containing its own
“virtual” CPU, RAM, Hard Disk and Network Interface Card.
Host and Guest Machine: Host is the actual physical machine
which is running the Guest (Virtual) Machine.
Hypervisor: A software installed directly on the Host machine
which allows multiple VMs to run on the Host machine.
Key Concepts
in Virtualized
Infrastructure

9. Virtual
Architectures
Host Operating System
Applicatio
n
Hypervisor
Hypervisor
OS
App
OS
App
OS
App
OS
App
OS
App
Hosted or “Desktop” Bare Metal or “Server”
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10. Technology
Overview
Main Components
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Network Switch
Bare Metal Server
Storage Area Network (SAN)
Thin Clients

11. Introduction to
VMWare
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Highest Market share
Flexible Licensing
vCenter
Continuous Improvement and introduction
of new features
Free basic Disaster Recovery
Why VMWare?
Rockwell Automation chose
VMware® as their
technology provider due to
its maturity and market
leading position in
virtualization. All RW
Software are fully
compatible with vSphere.

12. Manageability:
vMotion
Migrate a running VM
from one physical server
to another
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VMware ESXi VMware ESXi VMware ESXi
Resource Pool
Operating ServerOperating Server Operating Server
VPN Router

13. Manageability:
Dynamic Resource
Scheduling
Management server monitors
host load and virtual machine
placement vs. defined rules.
Either suggests or
automatically executes
vMotion operations
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VMware ESXi VMware ESXi VMware ESXi
Resource Pool
Operating ServerOperating Server

14. Reliability: High
Availability
Hosts monitor each other and
their virtual machines for
failure (specific apps like
Oracle,…)
Failed virtual machines
automatically restarted where
resources are available.
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VMware ESXi VMware ESXi VMware ESXi
Resource Pool
Failed Server Operating ServerOperating Server Operating Server

15. Reliability: Fault
Tolerance
Virtual machines execute
simultaneously on two physical
servers
Bumpless failover in the event
of a hardware failure
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VMware ESXi VMware ESXi VMware ESXi
Failed Server Operating ServerOperating Server
No Reboot
Seamless Cutover
Operating Server

16. Key Concept
For all these options the VM-image must
run on the NAS- storage!!!
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17. Central Control Room - Solution
Support VMware HA, FT
and application
redundancy
Room to expand with
additional servers,
additional RAM and
additional disks
Room for in rack network
equipment
Full height rack, (48 RU
cabinet)
Supports 50+ virtual
machines
4 - Cisco C240M3 servers
with 128GB RAM
2 - Cisco 3750X switches
with 48 ports
EMC VNXe 3150 storage
with 10K SAS disks giving
9 TB usable storage
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18. Virtualization Infrastructure Physical Topology
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19. Rockwell Automation and VM Ware
Major Vendors in the Market?
VMware
Microsoft
Oracle
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BUT
Rockwell Automation chose VMware® as
their technology provider due to its maturity
and market leading position in virtualization.
All Rockwell Software are fully supported to
work on VMware vSphere.

20. Question & Answers
Thank You for Your Valuable Time
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